There is a bug in VFP7 (fixed in VFP8 and later) where the dirty file indicator doesn't appear when running on XP with themes enabled. The workaround is to turn themes off, the fix is to use VFP8 or later.

>Thanks! But nope, that didn't do it.
>I'm thinking that it's because I've got VFP8 and beta9.
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>>AFAIK, there's no setting that controls Dirty File Flag display but it can be affected by the font used. Try to start VFP with -A command line switch.